Boobi's Memoirs
Author : Hilary Sagovsky
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
A Boob's Life
Author : Leslie Lehr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643136232
Book Description
A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts—or loves them. Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone—these are classic life stages for women today. At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today. From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.
Clear Springs
Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Random House
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307830241
Book Description
In this superb memoir, the bestselling author of In Country and other award-winning books tells her own story, and the story of a Kentucky farm family, the Masons of Clear Springs. Like Russell Baker's Growing Up, Jill Ker Conway's The Road from Coorain, and other classic literary memoirs, Clear Springs takes us back in time to recapture a way of life that has all but disappeared, a country culture deeply rooted in work and food and family, in common sense and music and the land. Clear Springs is also an American woman's odyssey, exploring how a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places grew up in the forties, fifties, and sixties, and fulfilled her ambition to be a writer. A multilayered narrative of three generations--Bobbie Ann Mason, her parents and grandparents--Clear Springs gracefully interlaces several different lives, decades, and locales, moving from the industrious life on a Kentucky farm to travels around the South with Mason as president of the Hilltoppers Fan Club; from the hippie lifestyle of the 1960s New York counterculture to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a farmhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from pop music concerts to a small rustic schoolhouse. Clear Springs depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century, as well as to Bobbie Ann Mason herself. When the movie of Mason's bestselling novel In Country is filmed near Clear Springs, it brings the first limousines to town, even as it brings out once again the wisdom and values of Mason's remarkable parents. Her mother, especially, stands at the center of this book. Mason's journey leads her to a recognition of the drama and significance of her mother's life and to a new understanding of heritage, place, and family roots. Brilliant and evocative, Clear Springs is a stunning achievement.
Are We There Yet?
Author : Roberta Austin
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645447733
Book Description
"Are we there yet?" The answer should always be "Yes!" because the stated destination is a small part of the trip. Wherever we are, there is much to see and do and learn. We are always "there." Such it is with life. The author has written about being "there" for almost nine exciting decades from 1930 to 2020.
Echoes of Mercy, Whispers of Love
Author : Bobbi Smith
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1664210482
Book Description
Barbara was the youngest of twelve children, born to parents with very little. Her father was also a coal miner. She felt blessed to be part of a large family, and did not consider herself to be poor. From even a young child’s vantage point, she had a passion for being able to see things through the eyes of Jesus. Within her memoirs, you will see that she combines humor with reality as she relates her story. Her curiosity could not be dismissed. Throughout her life, she felt that God had blessed her with a heart for music, and she wanted to use it for His glory. With strong determination and a song in her heart, she rose beyond the stigma of living on the wrong side of the tracks. Things begin to occur in her life, and feeling all alone, she nearly falters as she faces obstacles that could only be overcome by returning to, and trusting God.
Clear Springs
Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2000-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060956295
Book Description
People love and remember the novels of Bobbie Ann Mason because they ring so true. This dazzling memoir saga of three generations, their aspirations, their conflicts, and the ties that bound them to one another. Spanning decades, Clear Springs gracefully weaves together the stories of Mason's grandparents, parents, and her won generation. The narrative moves from the sober industriousness of a Kentucky farm to the hippie lifestyle of the countercultural 1960s; from a New York fan magazine to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a county poorhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from a small rustic schoolhouse to glittering pop music concerts. In the process of recounting her own odyssey--the story of a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places--Mason depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century. Ultimately, Clear Springs is a heartfelt portrait of an extended family, and a profound affirmation of the importance of family love.
Double Take
Author : Bobbie Herron
Publisher : Joy of Seeing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2022-09-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781735873022
Book Description
"Double Take: A Second Look at the Joy of Seeing" is the memoir-style companion to the best-selling art instruction book, "Look at That!"It's the true story of how the author continued drawing, sketching, and painting throughout her life despite threats to her eyesight. The book's beautiful layout echoes the rhythm of the 47 sketchbook journals used to create it. Over 150 illustrations appear throughout this often light-hearted, often heart-wrenching tale of loss, resolve, and joy.Most memoirs are about complicated relationships between people.This artist's illustrated memoir is different. It's about Vision: Eyesight as well as Insight.Reviewers Remarks:A Simple Memoir filled with insightIt is heartfelt, funny, sincere, poignant, openly candid, and presents some deep insights into living in the moment. Facing encroaching blindness, Bobbie Herron still seeks out new adventures and presents encouraging ideas for doing so. Binged in one sittingIf you loved "Look at That!" it's time to read "Double Take." If you haven't read "Look at That!" I genuinely think you should start with "Double Take;" rarely do you get such a lovely, meta understanding of an artist's internal conversations and creative genius as these books together.An artist's memoir, a universal storyI read this book right through to the end without stopping and wanted there to be more pages to turn. Bobbie Herron's memoir should make the reader feel sad as she shares an account of the slow deterioration of her eyesight, her literal vision. Yet hope and inspiration are right there at the turn of every page as she shares her artist's vision of beauty in the mundane. The reader also becomes an observer of Bobbie's watercolors and sketches which are liberally sprinkled throughout the narrative. A kind of picture book feeling emerges as one's eye is drawn to the art to soften the compelling narrative. This is a book I will want to come back to often both for its personal straight forward message of hope and to remind myself to look at my world through the eyes of love.
Me and Sister Bobbie
Author : Willie Nelson
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1984854151
Book Description
The untold story of Willie Nelson and his sister, Bobbie, who, over the course of their lives together, supported each other through personal tragedies and triumphs and forged an unbreakable bond through their shared love of music “Tender and intimate.”—The New Yorker “Poignant, beautiful, heartfelt.”—New York Journal of Books ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Rolling Stone, Kirkus Reviews Abandoned by their parents as toddlers, Willie and Bobbie Nelson found their love of music almost immediately through their grandparents, who raised them in a small Texas town. Their close relationship was the longest-lasting bond in both their lives. In alternating chapters, this heartfelt dual memoir weaves together both their stories as they experienced them side by side and apart. The Nelsons share powerful, emotional moments from growing up, playing music in public for the first time, and facing trials in adulthood, as Willie pursued songwriting and Bobbie faced a series of challenging relationships and a musical career that took off only when attitudes about women began to change in Texas. This is Bobbie’s only memoir, and in it she candidly shares her life story in full. Her deeply affecting chapters delve into her personal relationships and life as a mother and as a musician with technical skills that even Willie admits surpass his own. In his poignant stories, Willie shares the depth of his bond with his sister, and how that bond carried him through his most troubled moments. Willie and Bobbie supported each other through unthinkable personal heartbreak, and they always shared in each other’s victories. Through dizzying highs and traumatic lows, spanning almost nine decades of life, Willie and Bobbie always had each other’s back. Their story is an inspiring, lyrical statement of how family always finds the way.
The Monsterologist
Author : Bobbi Katz
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781402744174
Book Description
"The world's foremost expert in monsterology shares his rare collection of letters, notes, and memorabilia ... [including] an interview with the Loch Ness monster, an invitation from Count Dracula, Bluebeard's personal ad, and many other monstrous secrets"--Back cover.
(You Don't Know) The Half of It
Author : Bobbi Williams
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619848078
Book Description
"(You Don't Know) The Half of It" is the story of two people, one public (George) and one private (Bobbi), the latter in hiding until George was nearly 45 years old. The story of their lives is told by Bobbi who, though in the shadows for much of the time, was still a major influence. She takes us through George's childhood in Brooklyn, his college years, his time as Academic Dean of Austin Community College, then as Technical Writer for Shell Oil in Nigeria, Dell Computers, and Radian International (an environmental engineering company), and later as a writer and performer with the "Esther's Follies" comedy troupe, and as a stand-up comic. Only able to 'escape' on a limited basis, Bobbi observes as along the way George struggles with accepting her--his "other self."
